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Following a government-commissioned feasibility study to improve electricity supply to remote northern villages and Gozo, two submarine cables were laid in 1957 from Marfa in Malta to Comino and from Comino to Gozo. This new inter-island connection, including the Malta–Comino submarine power cable, was commissioned in 1958, enabling Gozo to be supplied from Malta’s power station and paving the way for the shutdown of the local Gozo power station in January 1959.